How do I get more Generals?

[Alrik]

There are the random adoptions too! :)

Tristan covered that.

I just want to claify that you need teritories to get generals, I have won insane battles without getting "a man of the hour", I assume because one can only get so many, so now I turn down the ones I don't want.

Oh, and to get "man of the hour" you need to do the battles, like Tristan said; with an army that doesn't have a general, but he forgot to mention that you have to do it in the field. That is, not defending or taking a settlement.